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Shwoo: Removed this:
Brazilians are generally conservative about sex and family control issues, and care more about their jobs and personal wealth than the environment or free speech.
- Hang on, this (brazilian) troper disagrees completly with that last phrase. It seems to be more of a case of Did Not Do The Research than anything else and it contradicts the rest of the article. How can brazilians be so conservative about sex when they have the uber sex-related festival, the Carnival? The rest also seems complete nonsense.
If it's wrong or highly debatable, then it shouldn't be there.
Pro-Mole: Let's put it this way, though: we call it "Pseudo-Moralism". Sex is something dirty and not addressed in public, or something that shouldn't anyway, and by default the culture is very moralistm, as if nobody thought about or even liked sex, what we know is a lie. Anywhat, Carnival is considered "Anything Goes Day", the day when you can ignore morality and get into the party A-OK. As contraditory as it looks, "this is Brazil".
About family control issues... well, I can't even describe the fuss people go onto when they suggest condom distribution in health posts, Catholicism will kill us, that's what I say...
And about the rest... I won't touch this, but I'll just say the phrase "people are tricky" applies to this country like a glove...
- Shouldn't the main entry link be cut? It just leads to the movie named Brazil.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: The movie Brazil is considered a modern classic. We can't cut that unless we transfer the contents. Film/Brazil has to exist if you want Brazil to go to country/Brazil.
So, someone please create a Film/Brazil!!
Brazil discovered by the Irish?? maybe, though I doubt it. Brazil being the source of the name Hi-Brazil?? Bullshit! Brazil was called by the natives Pindorama, which means "Land of the Palm Trees". The name Brazil was only coined by the Portuguese, due to the abundance of brazilwood (in Portuguese, Pau-Brasil) in the region.
Bon Sequitur: Removed this: "As a trivia note, the actual name of the country is República Democrática dos Estados Unidos do Brasil, or "Democratic Republic of the United States of Brasil", but really almost 99% of the population had no idea of it anymore until it showed up on tv at the year 2000 when it became 500 years old."
"República Democrática dos Estados Unidos do Brazil [sic]" is an archaic name for the country, dating back to the original Republic. "República Federativa do Brasil" is the current official name, and has been at least since the constitution of 1984.
